The one (smart) adult in the ABSS room
We’re a bit behind in giving a word of thanks, and encouragement, to the one ABSS bureaucrat who appears to be at least trying...
Elon well on the way to becoming Pottersville
We don’t really know why Elon’s town council is so enamored with outdoor sidewalk drinking, but it seems they just can’t get enough of...
More (detailed) bad news about ABSS schools’ performance grades
In this edition, we have additional in-depth coverage about the performance grades given by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction to all public schools,...
The Public Asks: lots of questions about ABBS and mold
One of this newspaper’s most popular features over many years has been our “Public Asks” column, in which the newspaper tries to find answers...
A slushy slope toward a conflict of interest
We really don’t mean to be picking on school board member Ryan Bowden, but it just seems that he continues to be at the...
Even ABSS propaganda can’t put positive spin on dismal academic performance
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry...
Elections have consequences, all right; so do not having any
There’s an oft-quoted adage, most often used by career politicians, that “elections have consequences,” by which they usually mean that since they’ve won, they...
Does school board member with no children/grandchildren in ABSS schools have any more...
We don’t know Brandy Whittaker, one of the ABSS parents who took the podium at last week’s school board meeting to upbraid the school...
If they don’t want to fill a school board seat (at all), just say...
We don’t have an especially strong feeling about whether the school board should appoint someone to fill the seat left vacant by longtime member...
On Caesar’s wife and the need to learn from history
We’ve often written of our belief that public officials and their spouses ought to remain “as pure as Caesar’s wife,” as the old saying...
